Jason Eppink

Open “The Answer is No (@YourTitleSucks)” by Jason EppinkThis bot tirelessly applies a principle described by Betteridge’s law of headlines, which states that “Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” This has become a kind of litmus test for sloppy and sensationalist journalism, and the bot relentlessly applies by detecting question headlines in Twitter by newspapers, magazines, and journals and retweeting the headline with the answer: “No.” Or in Eppink’s words:

The Answer Is No serves a public purpose by watching Twitter for instances of journalistic uncertainty and answering them for the benefit of the publication and its readers.